That's wonderful, Kas. I've seen somthing similar done here in in Italy, but now I have to check back if it was done by the same artist. Do you know the South African artist/animator William Kentridge ? He does a similar kind of thing, overlaying drawing upon drawing. There's also a bunch of his stuff on Youtube.

Lovely, thanks.That reminds me a bit of the (live) sand animation link Dayna posted originally to the fRoots board.The "performance animation" number was presented at the "Ukiraine's Got Talent" competition. That was some amazing piece of work Here's the link again, in case it hasn't been posted at this site:

DavidM wrote:That's wonderful, Kas. I've seen somthing similar done here in in Italy, but now I have to check back if it was done by the same artist. Do you know the South African artist/animator William Kentridge ? He does a similar kind of thing, overlaying drawing upon drawing.

I saw a Kentridge show at San Francisco MOMA last year, it was the best art show I've seen in many years - going in I'd never heard of him, leaving I wanted to find out everything I could about this amazing artist. There were many delights - the erased drawing animations, the charcoals, but the pieces I enjoyed most were the mechanical puppet theatres he had constructed - absolutely magical...

I first came across William Kentridges's work at the Venice Biennale 6 or 8 years ago. In contrast to so many of the installations and videos there his animation stood out for it's accessibility and for it's obvious skill in the drawing; qualities deeply suspicious in the Contemporary Art world. And yet, it is self-reflexive in the way that so much recent art is; there's a short film he made of himself doing a drawing with the film running backwards so that it finishes with a blank sheet of paper. It's a gag that Robert Rauschenberg did, erasing a De Kooning drawing, back in the 1960's, but the effect of watching a film of it is both delightful and compelling, and raises the same questions about the creative act. I wish I knew more about him; I confess I haven't ever seen his work with puppets, only a photograph, but I'd certainly like to.